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English for Tourism & Hospitality by Prof. Adel AlSheikh 2021/2022
Part Three
Core English Skills
Content and function words
Function words carry only grammatical
meaning such as:
articles (a, an, the),
prepositions (in, on, at etc.),
auxiliaries (are, was, do… etc.),
quantifiers (some, any, all… etc.),
pronouns (he, we, this etc.),
conjunctions (and, or, but, although… etc).
Function words help us
connect important information.
They are essential for understanding, but
they add little meaning beyond defining the
relationship between two words. The
number of function words is limited (about
176 words). Since they represent between
40% to 60% of the total number of words of
most English sentences, they should be
mastered.
Content words, on the other hand, carry
real meaning such as:
nouns (Susan, chair, computer… etc.),
verbs (hit, swim, eat… etc.),
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